Word: gallant
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...under 20 names, including a sober study entitled When France Occupied Europe (1792-1815). Consequently, when he makes Caroline an eyewitness to Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, he knows what that eyeful was. Every page of Secrets is dotted with the stock characters of romantic fiction-dashing lieutenants, gallant generals, evil-faced spies and slimy turncoats-but Saint-Laurent trots them out with verve, gives them real jobs to do. The most dignified historian might respect Saint-Laurent's dramatic, spine-freezing account of Boney's awful homeward trudge, which would teach most schoolboys a lot more...
With the lines in English a few of the usually "dramatic" Italian phrases sound a bit peculiar. For example, the young maid has finished a long sorrowful song about her mistreatment by the bawdy Don, and her gallant suitor warbles "Ohhh, a piteee." These are the exceptions however and this fine presentation, like Cosi, is highly enjoyable...
...Americans are grateful for the gallant recovery President Eisenhower has made. This brave soldier truly deserves your title...
Despair & Violence. The week's drama was also charged with painful clinical details. Playwrights '56 made a gallant try at reducing the prolix complexity of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury to the rigid demands of the theater...
...model" goes on. Experts in this game can tell that Taub in The Oasis is really the editor of a certain highbrow magazine; another highbrow editor (his journal is now defunct) won his McCarthy Purple Heart as Macdougal Macdermott in the same book, but both remain good and gallant friends of their satirist...